Wabi-Sabi: A YŌNOBI Guide to Japanese Aesthetic and Philosophy

“The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty’s ends." - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows There is a certain charm or quite beauty to a simple object that has been used for many years. Think about the warm delight of holding a wooden spoon used for decades, or of examining the intricacy of cracks which…